To all Instructional Attendees: Thank you all so much for your participation at the Instructional! We continue to learn together through your questions and comments. We want to especially thank all of our girls and alumni for their crucial input on membership initiatives, their creativity in coming up with new ways to target potential new members, and their openness in sharing with us. We hope you take what you’ve learned from each other back to your local assemblies and reach out to your friends to join us! Remember the membership team is here to help you! As always, we would value your input on ways we can continue to make this event relevant and useful for YOU! Please complete the survey appropriate to your instructional by following the appropriate link below. The surveys should be filled out by both girls and adults that attended either Instructional.

Directed with all of our love and appreciation, Mrs. Warren and Miss Rosenthal

California Rainbow is excited to announce the All New Communication Connection! Our Grand Recorder Melanie is working hard to prepare the July 2016 Edition of the Communication Connection and it will go out in its new electronic format in the next day or so!

If you are already on the official roster for California Rainbow, you have already been signed up to receive the All New Communication Connection. If you aren’t currently listed on the official roster, please feel free to subscribe to the All New Communication Connection and receive it in your inbox every month on the Communication Connection webpage (the sign-up page is near the bottom of the page).

Note: We will still maintain a small mailing list for people unable to receive email.

Hi California Rainbow and friends! A Place Called Home needs our help! Every year in August, A Place Called Home holds a “Back to School” giveaway where they provide backpacks filled with school supplies to children in the community. California Rainbow has been asked to help their event by holding a backpack drive. We will be holding two backpack drives, one at the Southern Instructional (July 16th) and one at the Northern Instructional (July 23rd). If you are unable to attend either instructional but would still like to donate, please contact the Grand Assembly office at dana.regier@gocarainbow.org. The backpacks are for children to use in the school year so please no drawstring backpacks.

Thank you for helping make a difference in getting children ready for a new school year!

A few additional details…

We will be collecting the backpacks at the State Instructionals. Please bring your donation with you to that event.

CAIORG will arrange for the delivery of the backpacks, so please do not send or drop off any at APCH.

If you would like to donate additional items like pens/pencils, notebooks, markers, etc. those will be accepted but we are focused on meeting a need for 500 backpacks that APCH has.

Do you play a musical instrument or sing in a choir? Would you be interested in working with members of other youth orders to create beautiful music? California’s Grand Lodge is looking for members of Masonic youth orders in both Northern and Southern California who might be interested in belonging to a musical group that would perform at Masonic and other events. If you are interested, please click on the link below to send them your information.

On May 29, 2016, at the First Official Visit hosted by Districts 17 and 20, GWA Heidi announced the Grand Service Project for the Dynamic Deer and California Rainbow. We will be working to benefit a non-profit organization named A Place Called Home. Heidi also asked that each assembly conduct a book drive to benefit a local program in their own communities.

The Public Relations Team is looking for active girls and adults to join our team! Our team has recently been reformatted to focus on 5 different sub-teams: Photography/Video, Social Media, State-wide publicity, Assembly Resources and the Website committee. Together we hope to get the word out to the public about California Rainbow Girls and YOU can help!

Girls – Please fill out the following online application by May 21st: https://www.esurveycreator.com/s/4990bf6 . We will be announcing the new members at the 1st OV! Girl members of the PR Team will serve on the team for one year and work closely with adult team members throughout the year on monthly conference calls, at the PR Retreat and other opportunities, where they will both learn about publicity and help California Rainbow with their ideas!

Adults – If you have experience in any area of Publicity and are willing to serve on on the team, including a monthly conference call, please fill out the following interest form:https://www.esurveycreator.com/s/600c2fe

We hope that you received the Publicity Challenge at Grand Assembly and are already working on it! If you did not pick up your copy at the PR Booth, please download it by clicking here. Be sure to check out our Social Media channels each month where we will highlight the focus of each month’s challenge and give you some tips!

Did you (or a representative) attend the PR Team meeting Saturday morning at Grand Assembly? We need your promo videos you filmed! Please make sure to email them to CARainbowGirls@yahoo.com so we can edit them into one great video!

If you are interested in attending Supreme Assembly this year, the deadline for your application to be turned in is approaching fast! The applications and your deposit are due to Mrs. Garcia no later than 4/15/16. Applications received in the mail after that date are “space available only” and subject to a higher cost. Emailed applications are not considered “official applications.” The information you need to sign-up to attend Supreme Assembly is linked to below.